Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration

Harvard FAS

This class is evenly divided between lectures and conference sessions which cover the principals that guide vertebrate development and stem cell maintenance in various renewing tissues; in addition, we discuss how these principals can be leveraged to generate cells/tissues for regenerative biology or disease modeling in vitro. Specific topics include a molecular dissection of the signaling pathways, gene regulatory networks, and epigenetic mechanisms that control primary axis formation…